Portland’s homegrown, homebrewed Festival of Abide ambles its way back to the Bagdad Theater for the seventh straight year, as Cort Webber and Bobby Roberts of the cortandfatboy podcast once again present CINCO DE LEBOWSKI, a celebration of the Coen Bros. cult classic, and of The Dude himself.

Again this year the fest features a $10 VIP ticket option with preferred seating, early admission (7:30 p.m.), a pre-show performance from Here Come Dots, a cocktail, hors d’oeuvres, and more.

$10 too rich for your blood? Regular admission is only $3. Cinco de Lebowski take place at the Bagdad Theater (3702 SE Hawthorne) Doors open at 10 p.m. (VIP doors at 7:30 p.m.). Costumes encouraged. Visit cortandfatboy.com for more details.

Festival hours are 11am to 11pm each day. Admission is $8 if you’re 13 or older, $5 for those 6 to 12 and for seniors (62 and over), and kids under 6 get in free. Visit the Cinco De Mayo website for the full entertainment schedule, special deals, and other event details.

What: Watch local Laurelhurst Elementary kids skip around the may pole, reenacting a century-old Portland public school tradition. Stay for dinner and maybe a movie in the theater.When: 4 pm – 9 p.m.Where: Kennedy School (5736 NE 33rd)

Whitman College alumnus William O. Douglas was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1939 by Franklin Roosevelt. He served longer than any other justice in U.S. history, and is the only justice from the Pacific Northwest.

Douglas was a beacon for the preservation of wild places and individual freedom, by word and by example. The answer to society’s problems is more freedom, not less. This was the message he gave in countless speeches to citizens, not just the legal and academic world.

A New Deal insider and poker buddy of FDR he was seriously considered as his Vice Presidential running mate. Douglas also found time to author over 30 books in his lifetime. His career spanned events from the Great Depression to Watergate and was as controversial as it was prolific, four marriages and four impeachment attempts, also both records attest to that. Praise and criticism were constant companions to his work.